Amazon plastic bags are creating pollution in the environment , CEO announced 791 Million fund for environment
By Web Deskupdated : 1 month ago
New York: 18 December 2020: Pollution has become a major issue globally, states have taken a step to combat the issue, multinational companies are also polluting the environment Jeff Bezos, the CEO and founder of Amazon, announced that he would be donating $791m to 16 environmental organizations to help combat the effects of climate change. The impressive donation is coming from a $10bn fund set up in February to address this critical issue.
Amazon also launched the “Climate Pledge” last September, which encompasses several ambitious goals, including a commitment to be carbon neutral by 2040. According to a new Oceana report, Amazon generated an estimated 465 million pounds of air pillows, bubble wrap, and other plastic packaging waste in 2019, which, in the form of air pillows, would provide enough plastic to circle the Earth more than 500 times. Up to 22 million pounds of this waste, the report estimates, found its way into freshwater and marine ecosystems – the equivalent of a delivery van full of plastic packaging being dumped into the world’s waterways and oceans every 70 minutes.
The company disputes these figures but has not yet provided alternative data or specific estimates – by country – for its and its marketplace vendors’ plastic footprint. Recent studies estimate that 90 percent of all seabirds and 52 percent of all sea turtles have ingested plastic.
Amazon plastic bags are creating pollution in the environment , CEO announced 791 Million fund for environment
By Web Deskupdated : 1 month ago
New York: 18 December 2020: Pollution has become a major issue globally, states have taken a step to combat the issue, multinational companies are also polluting the environment Jeff Bezos, the CEO and founder of Amazon, announced that he would be donating $791m to 16 environmental organizations to help combat the effects of climate change. The impressive donation is coming from a $10bn fund set up in February to address this critical issue.
Amazon also launched the “Climate Pledge” last September, which encompasses several ambitious goals, including a commitment to be carbon neutral by 2040. According to a new Oceana report, Amazon generated an estimated 465 million pounds of air pillows, bubble wrap, and other plastic packaging waste in 2019, which, in the form of air pillows, would provide enough plastic to circle the Earth more than 500 times. Up to 22 million pounds of this waste, the report estimates, found its way into freshwater and marine ecosystems – the equivalent of a delivery van full of plastic packaging being dumped into the world’s waterways and oceans every 70 minutes.
The company disputes these figures but has not yet provided alternative data or specific estimates – by country – for its and its marketplace vendors’ plastic footprint. Recent studies estimate that 90 percent of all seabirds and 52 percent of all sea turtles have ingested plastic.
